Cap.



1 M. J. NOV OSON & J. HILL.

- GAP. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13,1914.

' Patented Jan. 5. 1915 CAP.

Specification of Le tters Patent.

Patented titan, 191:1

lpplication and. June 13, 191%. Serial No. teaser.

To all whom 17; may concern:

Be it known that we, Mansion J. Novo- SON and James B. HILL, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of tit. Louis. State of lilissouri. have jointly invented a certain new and useful Improve ment in Caps, of which the following 1s a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a ,part thereof.

This invention. relates to a certain new and useful improvement in caps or head- Wear, the objects of our present invention being to provide a cap adapted to y1eldingly fit, within certain limits, heads of various sizes; to provide a cap not only adapted to normally furnish as an ordinary cap the usual top-covering for the head, but to also abnormally furnish a covering, and serve as a protector, for the ears and hack of the head; to provide a cap of the k nd described with not only readily ZHljUStQlTdG, but also readily detachable and renewable, resilient size-reducing members; to provide a cap of the kind described which may be economicallv manufactured and Whi h whether in normal or abnormal conditu will present a neat and attractive a ipearance; and to improve gcncrall y upon. caps of the kind described.

lVith the above and other objects in view, our invention resides in certain novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elcvatiranil View of our new capes when in normal condition. upon the head of a wearer; Fig. View, partly broken away, of the band ofthe cap in fully extended condition; F 1g. 3 1s a longitudinal sectional View on toc-line,3-3,

Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is a. transverse Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary View of the band of the cap in fully resiliently reduced condition; Fig. is a longitudinal sectional View on the line 5 5, sectional View on the line 6-6, Fig. 2; Fig. 7 is a similar View on the line 7-7, Fig. 2; Fig. 8 is a detail fragmentary View of the band of the cap, showing one of its resilient sine-reducing members in 5111@ClJUStQ'IllJUSliJlOl'lF, and. Fig. 9 is a long1tud1nal sectional View on the line 9-9, Fig. 8.

is an enlarged fraginentarv .casings 10 in As seen in said drawing, in which like reference characters refer to like parts ()tllfll'WlSQ fixed to body-portion 1 and band in any suitable manner.

ody-portion 1, which may be of any suitable flexible material, is preferably at its edge inturned or folded upon itself, as at 1", the marginal portion 4: of body-pom tion 1 forming with a strip or band 5 also of suitable flexible material, fixed upon the inner surface of said marginal portion 4: preferably by longitudinal rows of thread stitches or the like running along its opposite side edges, hand 2. I Band 2 of the cap is cut or formed and designed to fit. any certain predetermined size of head, say, for instance, seven and one-half, the major portion of body-portion 1 being also loosely cut or made to provide a considerable fullness of material which is adapted to normally, as seen in Figs attractive folds, as at 6, 7, and 8.

At each side of the cap, preferably adjaf cent the opposite ends of vizor 3, members 4 and 5 of hand 2 are also sewed together b pairs of spaced transverse thread stitches 9*9, the portions of band 2 therebetween forming What might be called casings 10, band-portion 4 adjacent said stitches 9-9 being transversely cut or slitted, as at 11+- 11, to provide openings into the casings 10, as seen clearly in Figs. 2 and 4t. Centrally in each of the casings 10, band members 4 and 5 are again sewed together by a pair of spaced-apart short longitudinal rows of thread stitches 12-12, a central longitudinal. passage, as at 13, through each of the alinenient with its openings 11-11 being thereby provided.

Fixed on band 2 adjacent, and in aline-' ment' with the casing-openings 1], 11, are

headed buttons or the like 1114, and eX- different and smaller size then-the prede' lot messes j was stitches providing longitudinal said bend: buttons fixed on seicl and adjacent said slitsand in elinement with said passages, and endless elastic loops extendin longitudinally through said passages an detachably engaging with said huttonsgsaid elastic loops being adapted to resiliently reduce the size of said head, to yieldingly fit sizes of head smaller than said predetermined size and said beml to each side of said asseges in passages there'ihl 'ouglifolding upon itself in oppositelydisposecl folds when sz iii tic loops are 111 normal unstretchecl (10116;; 131011; substantlally as described.

Intestimony whereof, We have signed on? names to this speclficabion, 1n the presence G. E. HAILMAN, LELIA HANK. 

